Because its a nice thing to do and they could. Why does there have to be a reason to do something nice?

Jesus people piss me off sometimes.

People are just pretending that they know who the hell this 'Odlaw' is to jump on the 'oh it's so nice' bandwagon. He's not even famous.

'Lord Sargeras, sweep your molten fist through this world, so that it may be reborn in flames and darkness!''So the light's vaunted justice has finally arrived.''Boldly said. But I remain...unconvinced.'My Warrior

Blizzard are naming items based on random, non famous people who die now?

Edit: So I googled him, and from what I can tell he's a guy...that made some random addons. How is that worthy of 'Striding always onwards in our hearts'?

I get the feeling you know that if you die only your 8 cats will miss you, for about 10 minutes and someone takes them to a new place, and that's why you're mad.
You should try to be a nicer guy, you'll see that eventually you might even make friends and find people that care about you.

Originally Posted by Gaexion

The loss of the ability to pass on loot is the loss of the ability to choose. This is communism.

Originally Posted by Aevra

It's a #$^&*@ fantasy game. You're a blue space goat riding around on flying serpents killing dragons the size of continents. And you're wondering why a gryphon doesn't look like an eagle?

For those who still claim it is just a greedy, heartless corporation, search Google, Wowhead, Youtube and other media for "Blizard memorials". There are many of these little things in the game to commemorate someone who passed away. Be it a 10 year old player who had leukemia, or the brother of a developer.

I'm not being a 'jerk.' It just baffles me that many people that play WoW, because they are just normal people, die everyday, and yet they get no mention from Blizzard.

Perhaps he was more than your "normal person" who played wow, perhaps he helped people and touched more than a few hearts on wow. Perhaps blizzard recognized his work with add-ons and his general good character within the wow community. Perhaps he was the type of person that blizzard would like to have associated with their game.

I can't post on the wow forums anymore, but it doesn't really matter. About a week ago the WoW community lost a good person, my friend Odlaw. He passed away, and to cut the story short, we made a thread to him here. http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...4011901?page=1